English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 130

Then the enchantment was broken, and all the lords and ladies who had so long been transformed into birds and beasts returned to their proper shapes, and the castle vanished away in a cloud of smoke.

Who acts: lords, castle · What happens: break, transform, return, vanish away, cloud · To what, where: enchantment, ladies, cloud, smoke

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 broken	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 enchantment	det
3	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 returned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 returned	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lords	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lords	det
10	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 returned	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ladies	cc
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lords	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 transformed	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 transformed	aux
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 transformed	advmod
16	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 transformed	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 transformed	aux:pass
18	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ladies	acl:relcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 birds	case
20	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 transformed	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beasts	cc
22	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 birds	conj
23	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 shapes	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shapes	nmod:poss
26	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shapes	amod
27	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 returned	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 vanished	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 vanished	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 castle	det
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vanished	nsubj
32	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 returned	conj
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 vanished	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 cloud	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cloud	det
36	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 vanished	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 smoke	case
38	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cloud	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		the enchantment		then		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	transform	past · perfect · passive		ladies			into birds and beasts result; long property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into bird=Result
3	return	past	all lords and ladies				to beasts's proper shapes result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shape=Result
4	vanish away	past	the castle		a cloud of smoke		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cloud			smoke				nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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